Hey, Minnows! Free Promotion to 2500+ FANS, PLUS a Chance to Win Free $SBD and So Much More.
It is more blessed to give, than to receive, and I need to practice a little giving today, so here's the deal! To say thankyou to all of you that have given to me, this post is open to quality links to your recent blog posts, in the comments! I have over 2500 followers and you can expose your work to a new, larger audience!
Now, I know, a lot of users are selling votes and resteems, but that's not what this is! You will not need to spend a single cent of $SBD to participate, but you will need to make an investment of a little time and effort.
But, there are a few rules, so here goes.
- Upvote and resteem the post to make sure as many as possible get to be involved, cool?
- Add your link, no junk, no morally questionable material, and no spam! I will downflag spam links!
- In addition to your post link, leave your steemit name in an @ mention, like this @markrmorrisjr in your comment, for me to follow.
- Interact with the other links shared. This is how you grow an audience, become friends, support them with resteems, upvotes and comments! Follow interesting people, who knows, they may follow you back!
Here's what you'll get for participating!
I want to be sure there is something in this for you, so here is what I will do! I'm going to make it pretty generous, so, pay attention!
- I will reply to every single comment.
- I will upvote comments that add value (first come, first served)
- I will follow every single link!
- I will follow every single author that adds a link!
- I will comment on every post that is linked from here, that upvotes, and resteems!
- I will upvote content I find interesting and value adding! (first come, first served!)
- One lucky promoter will be given some SBD from this post. How much, depends on how far the post spreads! (selected by me, for being a relevant post, quality content, and following the rules here)
Here's how you can get the best chance to win!
Everyone who participates has a chance to be selected to win, followed, upvoted and replied to. But, if you want to give yourself an advantage, here are some things you can do to really catch my attention!
- I'm doing this to help you gain exposure, BUT, I like exposure too. Show some love, upvote my posts,
- follow my blog,
- comment on other comments, join the conversation!
So, this post will be open for links for seven days. After that, I'll announce the winner, and one more thing! I'll be writing a post with several of my favorite linked articles, recommending your work to my 2500 followers! Yep, you could get mentioned again, in the body of a post from right here, next week!
READY? SET! GO!
If I get a hundred comments, votes and resteems, the prize will be at least $3 SBD.
First off ... thank you for this...
I'm hoping that once I enter into a "dolphin" status to use your blueprint here to Give Back... My handle here on steemit is @makingthebest09 I am following you. I took a look from some of my post as a minnow thus far, and found this to be a post reflective of my best content:
https://steemit.com/food/@makingthebest09/habanero-peach-pineapple-glazed-chicken-skewers
***IF I WIN your kind reward, I plan to share it with those that UPVOTE my comment....
Very impressive comment :) I have also upvoted your post and I will try the recipe too! I think there might be some habaneros in the garden ready for picking! I especially enjoyed your use of the word 'slathering' in the recipe, it's a great word that isn't often used in modern times, such a pity. Well played 👌
That is a great word. There are a lot of them . I personally think I need to spend more time with people who use the word "whilst".
😆 There are indeed a plethora of underutilised words in the English language! Although, I must confess that my written word is much more eloquent than my speech.
I bet your bush looks wonderful... your garden of Habaneros..
You have to send me a pic of your results from using the recipe... Yes I used "slathering" because the words "coat" or "dab" had no flavor to them... thanks for commenting! I plan to share @markrmorrisjr 's bounty if I receive it... :)
Yep, slather is the right call!
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Thank you for the notification Mark. As much as I would have loved to join in and compete,it behooves me to tell you that I have been beset with the recent bandwidth restrictions on plankton leading me to be in severe deficit and unable to transact in any manner or form. Oh and I'm a bit of a flake and the rules are too stringent for me,and I have a day job and children and blahdeblah. I will, however, read the posts with keen interest and wish you the best of success with your endeavour. Until next time, when the bandwidth chief smiles upon me!
HAHAHAHA! It would be a challenge for me too. Too many years being an artist, a self-employed artist. I"m hoping to get my steem back up to where I can just delegate a few SP to each participant for the ten days, at no cost the next time. I hate how this strangles new users. But, when I started, SP was dirt cheap, they could afford to give more, and there was a lot less competition, for the same number of SP in the reward pool daily. SO, hang out, read the posts if you can, if there's one catches your eye, join in, I'll gladly give pointers on it, if you want.
Thanks Mark, I appreciate your kindness, it's great what you're doing. I do have a favour to ask, but first, I just wanted to say I looked at day 2 and I wish I'd seen it before my latest post. Anyway, doesn't matter I'll keep it in mind for next time. I got some great tips out of it and it looks like your project is going fantastically. I'm so glad nothing gets archived here...yet, so I can go back and read things I didn't have time to study properly. There's just SO much! Anyway about the favour, I know you're very busy, I can only imagine the amount of planning, effort, creativity and strategy required to do this kind of thing for a living, I will have to plod along patiently until I make some headway, if only to see how far this experiment goes, although with your background and experience it must also be lots of fun! Oh, before I ask the favour I thought I'd share one little titbit of info you might not know: a full long post with images etc uses about 3+kb of bandwidth, although yours maybe more because of the memes. So what I wanted to ask was, do you think you could develop a fast track dolphin school for busy/lazy people with less homework? 😉
LOL! You bucket brigaded me! NiCE! Um, I'll have to think about it. I'm sure I could. I could probably also edit this down to half the content without losing anything, but I came up with this idea on Monday, so.....I'm pantsing it a bit. I've been writing and teaching this stuff so long as a blogger and marketing consultant, I open my mouth and it just falls out. I'm planning to write a good guide to steemit. The ones I've read, suck mud. So, the images are sucking up bandwidth? I'll cut back on that.
WELL PLAYED! I love it! Gamification on top of gamification. So, I upvoted your comment to get some of my SBD BACK!! LOL I used to be a dolphin, headed back there, had to cash out last summer to handle some good things in life.
Haha thanks man... we’ll consider me a team player... whatever you need to help push other minnows ahead count me in...
I'm joking, of course. It was a brilliant touch.
I’m learning from the best (you)...
Ok, enough sucking up. LOL
HA! I think you and I will get along just fine. Eddie Haskel, world class brown noser.
Thanks my mouth is now filled with saliva.... send me some of your cooking :P
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I have done pineapple like that before, well, without the chicken and with less ingredients cuz money. The next time try adding white rum or vodka and set it on fire and then let it simmer, it really adds a nice flavor to the pineapple
I'm in deep conflict about your comment... I mean, on the one hand, it was short and sweet, to the point, and certainly adding value to most people's lives... And the OP seems to have liked it a lot =)
On the other hand though, I am now terribly hungry but dinner time is still a ways off.
And on the 3rd hand (hey, don't judge), I am feeling morally conflicted because I'm vegetarian and I don't like being made hungry by pictures of juicy chicken kebabs.
The only way out of this pickle, methinks, is, checking out your other posts and hopefully finding some delicious vegetarian recipes! ... If I don't find any... I know where you live! (Well, you know, more or less. Miami, FL can't be that big!) ;P
Hey now, threatening comments are not appreciated! LOL Ever notice how fast Vegans, who are all about peace and love will go Rambo on you if you talk about loving meat?? (I'm eating a salad as I type thisLOL)
lol, indeed, there are some pretty crazy vegans about. Their hearts are in the right place but they often shoot the cause in the foot by being total dicks. I'd be a really nice vegan if it were possible to be vegan where I live.
I really hope @makingthebest09 didn't take any offence! Was just trying to be funny, which often fails if I use too much irony/sarcasm in a text ;P
lol... all is good... was just trying to power up and conserve bandwidth... I'm trying to become a dolphin AMONGST all of these whales...Are you going to try
@markrmorrisjr's great course... You should!! I am!!
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Hello Mark! Someone I was following re-steemed your post and serendipitously I am here, eager to participate in YOUR contest! I'm currently looking for support for my STEEM SKATE project where I host bi-weekly online skateboarding contests on Steemit.
here is an image to add flare to my comment:
Here is the link to the Minnowsupport project application that is also my entry to your contest:
https://steemit.com/mspsteem/@web-gnar/minnowsupport-application-for-steemskate-a-weekly-steemit-skateboarding-contest-like-open-mic-we-are-looking-for-supporters
and here is my account name:
@web-gnar
I will promptly resteem this post to my almost 700 followers, and I have upvoted you post 100% which sadly is only around 12¢ because I can't seem to take a break from steemit to let my upvote power charge back up.
I swung through your blog and upvoted a few ofyour posts. If you could help in any way support skateboarding on steemit we would all be grateful!
Also, I've been trying to pump out steemit related Gif animations that i've been learning to make with adobe flash. So there might be some content that your followers would like, all the gifs are free to use and I've been turning my paintings into crypto-gifs!
@web-gnar That was a great comment. Its nice seeing valuable information shared on Steemit. I went by your page and followed and Upvoted!
NICE! Value added comment there! I'll see what I can do about supporting the skaters, dude! LOL, do you guys still say dude? (I'm old) Anyway, I'll check out your post. Thanks! See you around!
hell yes my dude
I was being sardonic. LOL, I'm not THAT old. Later days!
hm sardonic i had to look that one up. I have been sardonic before... you are an author... i am in yourwebsite right now. wow. that book cover is awesome!
i'm a visual artist and i will say that is a badass book cover. Now im not going to so say that I will read your whole book just yet! i have a hard time reading books these days! hm... i just convinced my friend pat who is a creative writer to join steemit. i'm sure there are writers guilds around steemit. seems like the type of unique place to get people who are willing to read each other's work.
meh, getting other writers to read you is a double edged sword. We're way too critical. Yes, I 've actually published I think sixteen books at this point and ghost written another half dozen with other authors.
well hey, let me know if you need art
I did the bookcover by the way. Ha
With all the people getting involved in this, I'm going to be honest. I won't remember who volunteered to do what. If you'll watch for us to choose a hashtag to label all of this, you'll have an easy way to track it and when art is needed, we'll probably put up a bounty.
awesome concept. Have you tried creating GIFs through photoshop or do you find flash to be easier?
you make the layers in photoshop and drag the file into flash
Skateboarding on steemit... That's a first! (for me, at least) ... I love seeing this type of thing because it bodes well for the steemit platform, when all sorts of people are getting involved =)
Your post has now reminded me that I STILL haven't started exercising, which I meant to do from Jan 01. So thanks for the reminder... Won't be skating though ;P Tennis is more my thing.
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Great Thank You post.
I'm still struggling to create good posts. So I can't really participate as I feel my stuff are too "bad" to participate.
In any case, I enjoy reading your post, and have already been following your work. It's a learning process, and until my work reach certain quality, then I'll participate. (even though tempted by the rewards)
Thank you once again dear sir. Kudos to the good work.
If my stuff is good enough, anyone's is!
Share something!!!
THis is the advice I receive from other bloggers as well. We all have difference perspectives so no two posts are the same! Go for it!
@jeejee
Indeed I have to agree that whatever you post is worth posting as everyone is different and if you don't post the things that you have in your life or are interested in then how will others with the same interests ever know you have them...?
It's all about repitition. I write over a million words a year. Yep. Not joking.
Nice, that would make a lot of sense. I also write a lot... probably close to your 1 million words a year if not more. I wouldn't know a way to track how much I write but everyday I spend 4-5 hours on my computer and I type around 150 words a min. So there is a lot of typing in my life. Always when on the computer I am typing to someone or on something... like STEEMIT :D Haha, hmm... now I wonder if there is a way to track how many words I type... without keylogging myself. :P
Damn! 150? I can do about 90 on a test. So I figure I compose somewhere around 120.
Haha that just made me smile because I was just thinking that the best I have done on a test is around 120 but I type a lot faster when I don't have to type something I am reading. :P
Best person I ever saw on a test was an teacher I had when I was in high school. I was only hitting 80s on the tests back then and was way beyond the others in the class and the teacher came over and busted out 285wpm on my test... I was dumbfounded and still to this day have never seen a faster typer in person. Won't ever forget that lesson haha.
you never know until you do it. Like you said in your Monday Poem- "Monday comes again, regardless how we fight"
I think you're going to be posting anyways, regardless of how its received. What do you have to lose? Keep the faith
Do you want to know how I became a professional freelance writer, making up to $150USD per hour? I wrote over 3000 how-to articles for Demand Media in 16 mos at $14 a pop. The only way to get better is to subject your work to an audience. You might look at grammarly.com if you need help with English. It's free! There's another editing tool called Hemingway that's very reasonably priced. Also, just ask for critique, any time. If I have time, stop by my page that day, find a dolphinschool post and ask me to look at it. I'll give you tips anytime! I'm launching dolphinschool bootcamp today. For ten days, there will be assignments, and there will be rewards for those that work hard and do good work.
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A wonderful opportunity; thank you for this! I'm already following you and enjoying your posts - have upvoted and resteemed this one ... and this is a link to one of my poems from a few days ago (one I particularly like, hehehe) ...
https://steemit.com/poetry/@jcedwards/sweet-lila-poetry
Thank you so much again! I think I'm a little red fish (don't know what they call that), and you can find me at @jcedwards
Thanks for stopping by. This post is gaining some ground! Hope this helps all of us.
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Hi @markrmorrisjr I'm actually new to steemit and i appreciate this your post alot. Thank you for looking out for us new steemians. Pls upvote my posts and resteem too. Thanks so much in advance
By the way I STRONGLY Disagree with the writing in the picture.
Prayer is for talking with God to strengthen your relationship with Him.
There is so much to talk to God about but if you don't talk to him like you would your earthly Father then how can you have a good relationship with him?
Well, Jesus taught us that gratitude is a precursor to getting what we want from God. so it may not be the total reason, but it definitely should weigh more heavily on the American mainstream christian mind than it does currently, IMO.
Oh for sure I agree we need to be thankful, and definitely talk to our heavenly father about how thankful we are. It just shouldn't be the reason why we pray. There should be many other reasons as well.
As Paul talks about being in prayer all the time: "Pray without ceasing"
I would have to say that to be thankful should just be another reason added to a long list. :D
I think you mean it shouldn't be THE reason. Because sometimes, it is the reason for one conversation, I open my mouth and that is all that comes out. HA
Hahahaha okay you got me there.... thanks for the correction. :D
I do the same thing all the time... just need to thank God for some things real quick here. :P
I learned that when we pray, we are speaking to God. When we meditate, we are listening. I don't think there is anything wrong with thanking God for your blessings
Oh no nothing wrong with it at all. It just shouldn't be the only reason we ever pray... Sorry, I don't think I worded my post right there. As Paul said, we should: "Pray without ceasing." To me that means pray about everything.
I personally try to say thanks for EVERYTHING every day. If you want to learn about the power of gratitude, pick up the book The Magic by Rhonda Byrne. I will caution you, if you are a strict Biblical constructionist, some of it may rub you the wrong way. But, ultimately the stuff she teaches is life changing if you apply it. She has her own understanding of scripture, as we all do, but truth is universal.
Indeed truth is universal. Although I am a follower of Christ and a believer in the Bible I have a great open mind and can take most things at their face value and still learn from them even if they don't exactly line up with the way I believe. How you said it was great wording. "Truth is Universal". I love it.
Well, in that case, the book The Magic, no, it's not about anything occult, should be on your reading list. It will change your entire experience in life.
Hmmm, I will see if I can find an online copy for both of them as I read from time to time and don't have anything to read at the moment.
You both are right in each of your own opinions but i just strongly believe that if we don't appreciate God for what He's done for us, we'll always have that debt with Him..and ofcourse, if we're always thankful He'll definitely give us more than we even expect😊😊
YES! I agree. The Bible even suggests that the entrance to God's presence is through thanksgiving.
By the way, here is my steem id @hakima0 and a link to one if my posts steemit.com/marriage/@hakima0/marriage
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This is my post for the third #curiousfacts contest organised by @river-island: https://steemit.com/curiousfacts/@crypticalias/curious-facts-contest-3-emoji-trivia-curious-edition
I'm @crypticalias and I post #emojitrivia. If you're in the mood for some #curiousfacts, just click on the hashtag. And if you have an idea for the contest, don't hesitate.
Great! Thanks! I'll get over to your blog this week and check it out! I'll follow, and comment and possibly resteem and upvote, depending on voting power and how many resteems I've done. Thanks!
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Howdy @markmorrisjr I wanted to thank you for providing this opportunity to interact within the community and a place to leave our links for even more interaction! I was fortunate enough to have come across this post of yours because of a Resteem from one of my friends. Now I have upvoted and resteemed as well. I am looking forward to perusing the comments to check out the other posts.
My name is @castleberry here on Steemit. I joined the platform at the end of last September and it's been quite the experience. I look forward to growing more in and with the community. I am now following you and I look forward to checking out your blog. I also wanted to share my post from yesterday here with y'all.
I am an artist trying to get back into being productive. Steemit has been very inspirational and motivating to get the ball rolling again. I just started a new sketch and will be documenting my progress throughout the week. Here is my first phase in the process!
Spider-Man- Todd McFarlane Inspired Original Artwork -
Phase 1
Click The Image To See My Post
I hope you enjoy it and I do appreciate your time very much! Dolphins in the making!
Steem On My Friend!
Hi @castleberry =) .. Something I really want to do here on Steemit is connect with other artists (though I haven't done pencil in a long time - mine is all digital, using fractals.) so I'm glad to have found you here. I'm very new to this platform. I'm also happy to have discovered steepshot thanks to you, since @markrmorrisjr kindly shared it with you. So thanks to both of you ;)
I briefly went through your blog and man, "Maximum Carnage" is especially cool! lookingforward to seeing more of your work!
Hey @mandelsage! Welcome to Steemit! I like art in many forms to be honest! It is great to connect with you and other artists here. I am glad that SteepShot is up and working well. Sounds like a great opportunity for many people to share! I really appreciate you taking the time to check out my art! That one did turn out well and I really enjoyed sharing the process over a few posts. I am almost done with a Spider-Man I have been working on! You may want to check out the course that Mark will be giving over the next 10 days or so in how to grow as a Steemian. He left the link to that post below. I am going to give it a try! Hope to see you around more!
Steem On My Friend!
Hey great! I'll be having a bounty contest for a logo, once we come up with a hashtag for all of this. Also, if you're not familiar, go to steepshot. It's an offsite gallery for photos and art, similar to instagram. The posts go to your Steemit blog, but, they are in a curated streem on the site that filters out most of the content on steemit, giving you a better shot at getting seen! Good luck!
Thanks Mark! I will have to look into Steepshot for sure! There are so many new developments... it's hard to keep up with! I am super excited. I used to do logos so I am pretty sure I will participate for that one! Keep us Posted & Steem On!
You know about the steem tools page, right? In the hamburger menu at the top. It's got a lot of great stuff. Especially for researching your followers, and other accounts and posts, etc.
I have not fully explored all the tools... but I have poked around with some of them! Thanks for sharing. I know I will get up to speed this coming 10 days! hahaha
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I just signed up! Looking forward to it. Thanks for the reminder!
Thanks a lot @markrmorrisjr for this opportunity. I am in my second week on steemit and to be honest, I am here for the long run. My handle is @osmansnr and I just posted this yesterday. Hopefully, you might find it interesting.
https://steemit.com/life/@osmansnr/by-all-means-marry
Awesome! Thanks for participating. I'll get by your blog this week and leave a comment or two. I'll also follow you and if, I like what I see, I'll resteem or upvote. Thanks again! Good luck!
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It just so happens that just yesterday, I posted my best longboarding video I have made yet!
Colombian Skatecation
Thank you for doing this @markrmorrisjr ! Happy to have the exposer, and to find so many great links in one place.
@howweroll
Hi @howweroll, I used to watch my friends skate and I really enjoyed it even hough I never tried it myself. It's a great post so I upvoted it and started following you. I wish you the best!
Oh thank you so much! Yeah I got a few friends who just watch, but don't want to skate. Can't blame them, it's pretty easy to get hurt doing it.
Man, I missed this post. Sorry. I'll get by to take a look at your blog, probably today. If you want, watch for an announcement today, about dolphinschool bootcamp.
Thanks for your valuable and informative post about minowsunite,dolphinschool & so on.We can gather a lot of information by your post.By dint of, we can increase our skill that is beneficial for all steemians.I will always visit your site & wait for your upcoming post.
Thanks @markrmorrisjr
@Resteem,#upvote & follow has done.
Great, now I need a link to your latest post in order for you to be entered. Thanks!
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